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Nowhere in that quote does it say that:

1. HCL wrote the code for MCAS; or

2. HCL wrote all the code of the Max.

But again, I'm not defending Boeing. I think they made some (deadly) mistakes. But so far there's no proof that the MCAS software was outsourced.

glitchdouton The Coming Boeing Bailout?

Nowhere in the [original reporting][1] does it say that MCAS was outsourced.

This article (The Coming Boeing Bailout?) wrongly asserts that MCAS was outsourced. There's no corroboration for that.

Mind you, I'm not on Boeing's side. I'm just clarifying what's been reported so far.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...

glitchdouton Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search

Holy shit I had no idea! I was tired of Chrome's bookmark manager hijacking CTRL + F. I'll use CTRL + G from now on!

glitchdouton Going Critical

Maybe https://observablehq.com/demo

glitchdouton Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site

I did not know this was possible! Thank you so much!

glitchdouton Plans for the Next Iteration of Vue.js

It's not that simple because you can reverse lookup a TS enum. So:

    enum Color { Red = 1, Green = 2 }

would be the same as:

    var Color = {
      Red: 1,
      1: 'Red',
      Green: 2,
      2: 'Green'
    }

See for yourself: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=enum%20Color%7B%0D%...

But I agree with you, it would be quite easy for an automated tool to replace a TS enum with pure JS.

glitchdouton Changing Our Approach to Anti-Tracking

Modals or modal windows.

Case in point: https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/99ljrr/research...

glitchdouton Microsoft Urges Congress to Regulate Use of Facial Recognition

I didn't find anything on Microsoft turning down projects due to ethical issues.

However, I found a podcast with Fernando Diaz talking about the ethical problems of using AI and experimenting with users without their knowledge, which is commendable.

glitchdouton Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

Is this enough?...

glitchdouton Writing System Software [video]

That's no longer the correct playlist. Watch the last video of that playlist.

The correct playlist is now this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9wALaIpe0Py6E_oHCgTr...

glitchdouton House Votes to Renew Surveillance Law, Rejecting New Privacy Limits

Yeah. I'm so disappointed every time I watch this video of candidate Obama debating president Obama on government surveillance... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8

glitchdouton Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels

Use a parachute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqEkFBNiP3c&t=2m02s

glitchdouton A proposal to move Gnome to GitLab

> Why would any site use the same URIs for API endpoints and frontend/view navigation places?

Simplicity. Ruby on Rails facilitates that approach, for example.

> And in that case should the Content-Type (or Accepts) be the main factor?

Content-Type, yup! Unfortunately Chrome and IE 10 (not sure about Edge) disagree on that.

Without the Vary header, the back button leads to rendering what the server last returned, without taking the Content-Type into account - which is completely nonsensical in my opinion.

Chromium bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=94369

Repo and page that demonstrate the issue: https://github.com/guilhermesimoes/chrome-bug

This has been going on since at least 2011 so it seems nobody cares.

I honestly do not understand why that Vary header is necessary.

Firefox doesn't seem to need it to render pages from its cache correctly.

glitchdouton Root – Programmable bank account for software developers

In Portugal we can do just that with MBNet :D https://www.mbnet.pt/

glitchdouton Google’s Featured Snippets are often wrong, and also damaging to businesses

Are you saying we should embrace "alternative facts"?

glitchdouton Show HN: Ctxt.io – share context of whatever you see with others in seconds

Of course. That's why “Ctrl + Shift + V” exists — to paste plain, non-formatted text.

glitchdouton An animated GIF that shows its own MD5

Slightly related, I think you'll like this puzzle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1THOPm0qTw

glitchdouton Ruby `reject!`

That's actually the meaning Matz gives !. http://www.rubyletter.com/blog/2017/01/31/when-to-use-ruby-b...

glitchdouton As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America

> It could also be explained by Obama and Bush sharing similar philosophies on the security state, and there's a lot of evidence that supports that.

Like this video from 2007? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8

glitchdouton Inside Medium's Meltdown

It's even worse when it's a sticky header. In those cases when you hit the "Page Down" key the content is covered by the header and you have to press "Up" a few times to read it.

glitchdouton What should you think about when using Facebook?

The video referenced in that article is truly amazing/disturbing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Dd5aVXLCc

glitchdouton Letter From Human Rights Leaders Asking President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden

NSA trying to poison the well. Meh, keep trying, shill

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

glitchdouton Letter From Human Rights Leaders Asking President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden

This is a blatant lie. But I guess this is the type of propaganda and JTRIG ops that we have to get used to.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...

> Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe belong to a select fraternity: the NSA officials who paved the way.

> Not only did they go through multiple and all the proper internal channels and they failed, but more than that, it was turned against them. ... The inspector general was the one who gave their names to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act. And they were all targets of a federal criminal investigation, and Tom ended up being prosecuted — and it was for blowing the whistle.

William Binney describing the FBI raid on his house while he was in the shower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-3K3rkPRE&t=5m27s

and

> Top NSA Watchdog Who Insisted Snowden Should Have Come to Him Receives Termination Notice for Retaliating Against a Whistleblower

http://www.pogo.org/blog/2016/12/intelligence-community-land...

glitchdouton Git Koans (2013)

That hasn't been true since 2010-02-13, when Git v1.7.0 was released.

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/RelNote...

glitchdouton Pardon Edward Snowden

I'd say it counts a bit. At least according to Keith Alexander who recently said that NSA's best are "leaving in big numbers".

https://www.cyberscoop.com/nsa-morale-down-keith-alexander-m...

glitchdouton Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning plugin

> Wikileaks is a "rumor" site. It doesn't provide verified information.

This is a blatant lie. But I guess this is the type of propaganda and JTRIG ops that we have to get used to.

https://wikileaks.org/About.html

> We are fearless in our efforts to get the unvarnished truth out to the public. When information comes in, our journalists analyse the material, verify it and write a news piece about it describing its significance to society. We then publish both the news story and the original material in order to enable readers to analyse the story in the context of the original source material themselves.

glitchdouton Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team

So Facebook (& Thiel) is to Trump what Pollyhop is to Conway on House of Cards.

glitchdouton 'Black Mirror' Is Back, Reflecting Our Technological Fears

> to me it was just too unbelievable and silly

Uuh... Have you seen our reality?

http://qz.com/506490/the-black-mirror-episode-that-imagined-...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3242550/Cameron-pig-...

glitchdouton A Message to Our Customers

> I wasn't aware that anything like that had come out.

You're not aware of nothing like that ever come out. The guy just made it up (or it's just his wishful thinking). We still don't know which companies cooperated with the NSA.

We do know that Google didn't intend for its traffic between data centers to be scooped up - and that has been fixed in the meantime - but that doesn't prove that Google didn't cooperate in other matters.

Same with Apple. For all we know, they are all gagged due to NSLs.

glitchdouton GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart

I've only bought one Ruby book and it's POODR by Sandi Metz. One of the best programming books I've ever read.